While Dizzy wasn’t exactly mega popular here in Australia, as a kid growing up in the UK he was as important to me as Mario or Sonic. Now Codemasters has announced that it’s bringing back the most egg-cellent egg in all of gaming. How egg-citing.
Dizzy was a character at the forefront of Codemasters early blitz on the Spectrum budget market, during the 80s in the UK. Dizzy, Treasure Island Dizzy, Fantasy World Dizzy, Magicland Dizzy — they were platforming/adventure games cheaply and quickly produced. They were also amazing.
We’ll be extremely interesting to see exactly how Codemasters approach this reboot — XBLA/PSN? That would be our bet. A gorgeously rendered 2D version of the game with puzzles ala Limbo or Braid is the direction I’d personally like to see this franchise head towards.
I genuinely can’t wait to see where Codemasters go with this.
ShiggyNinty
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 9:51 AMMaybe he’ll be a HARD BOILED detective?
Sughly
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 9:58 AM*slow clap*
thistler
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:12 AMHope he can CRACK the case. DIZZY: Out of the frypan
Nick
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 9:54 AMSomewhere in Brisbane a fedora wearing Brit is orgasming double as hard
domslashryan
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 9:54 AMI wager that Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw will be excited about this news
Ruen
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 9:55 AM. . . damn I’m too late for the Yahtzee hiveminds. . .
GentlemanJ
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 9:56 AMHoping this is not a free-to-play browser game powered by micro-transactions like all other reboots seem to be.
Braaains
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:10 AMDammit, Mark, those puns were eggs-ecrable.
AudioGeek
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:17 AMAs a fellow pom in the land of Melbourne, I give this an “Eggs”uberant thumbs up!
N3RD1001101
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:26 AMI read this whilst munching on an omelette :)
MoVENTURA
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:29 AMW00t. Loved Magicland Dizzy on my old Atari ST.
Stevorooni
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:29 AMThey’ll probably make it a first person shooter.
Reiko
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:50 AMComing from the UK I grew up with the good ol Amiga and Treasure Island Dizzy is a game I have particularly fond memories of! Definately looking forward to seeing what Codemasters do with this reboot.
masha2932
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:51 AMIs this a yolk?
Slyph
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 11:14 AMAND THIS IS WHY WE’RE NOT ALLOWED PUNS.
N3RD1001101
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 11:18 AMwe cant help getting eggs-cited!
Aliasalpha
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 11:25 AMYou’d think people would be egg-specting puns like this
Ynefel
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 11:35 AMI never actually played any of the Dizzy games, but was more than aware of him courtesy of video game mags all being from the UK when I was a young fella. That being said, I can’t see Dizzy being relevant today.
Dr What?
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 11:58 AMAll I have to say is *ahem*
DIZZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
N3RD1001101
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 12:19 PMCurious… is Dizzy actually dizzie before or or after being scrambled…
Ezkaton
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 1:11 PMOdd that ‘Fantastic Dizzy’ wasn’t mentioned here.
Played tons of that on the old Mega Drive… even got a ROM on a Mega Drive emulator on my phone. :D
DKnight1000
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 1:24 PMI had a bunch of these games on my ol’ C64… I’m not sure how they can bring it back to the modern era as a lot of genre’s seem to be dead in favour of FPS or 3rd person Shooter or Action game, Oh and racing.
boomtish
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 1:46 PMTreasure Island Dizzy! Best games on my Amstrad
Neon Jackal
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 2:31 PMI used to play Fantastic Dizzy so much when I was a kid on my cousin’s Mega Drive, wasn’t until a few years ago that I went back and finished, those games could be hard. I am very excited.
Grandmaster B-Funk
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 9:38 PMCodemasters still exist?
the last codemasters game i played was Shane Warne Cricket 99….
Jiff
Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 8:53 PMCue memories of imported UK game mags from the early 90s
Amiga Power
CU Amiga
Some pom game reviewer with a mohawk named Stuart
Noel
Friday, November 25, 2011 at 9:35 AMi still have my copy of Fantastic Dizzy on mega drive and it scratch card that tells you how to complete some of the objectives.
still have to complete the game one day